Now that people have grown more nimble with online video, point-and-click holiday greetings have become a new palette for creativity, while static paper cards may induce a wince rather than a joyful noise.
The effect is sumptuous and joyful rather than campy.
Her songs remained joyful, rather than sad, but many saw her output merely as Mujahideen propaganda.
But I have been clean since 1987, and revisiting that journey from fear to love was joyful rather than painful.
I'm calling for a collective round of caroling out "Let it go!", holiday style -- where we spread the joy of not giving a crap about the to-do list and instead, we actually allow ourselves to feel joyful, rather than burdened by the season.
Krasner's vast canvases of the 1960s, with roiling arcs and circles marshaled to create cascading arabesques, strike me as programmatic, an idea about joyful abandon rather than the thing itself.
Vatican II's spirit of inclusion and a desire to embrace the world with joyful hope rather than with the previous militant siege mentality is foreign and anathema to those who prefer dogmatic pronouncements from the hierarchy and blind obedience to their authority.
See? Try asking, "How can I respond harmoniously, and as gracefully as possible, to whatever occurs?" This question offers a joyful ride rather than the grim march of illusory control.
You're sending pictures about what's up, rather than a text… it's joyful, people laugh about it.
But while I saw right-wingers snipe about "that hashtag" this weekend, they seemed more likely to complain obliquely, rather than jumping in to poison a joyful conversation.
